Board advice

04-09-2012, 03:55 AM

Hi guys
Just after some board advice from the experts. I am 55 years old, 5 ft 10 and 75 kilos. I am pretty fit. I live on the south coast of New South Wales and surf most days. I mostly ride HP longboards, logs and a Surftech 6 ft 10 Soulfish, which is coming to the end of its life. I was thinking about getting a 6 ft 10 Addvance. Any thoughts on this? I could go a smaller board, but I am not getting any younger.
Thanks for your ideas,

For the description you are giving you could perfectly be ion the 6'6" Addvance. It alll depends on what you want to get out of the board.
But seems like you will profit of the extra length when it comes to paddle so probably the 6'10" is the right call in your case

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I can't rate this board highly enough for the Fellas like me who don't want to flounder on a HP shortboard. I have already plugged the Addvances ability to handle the steeper sucker stuff but yesterday I was surfing waist high weak waves and the ADDvance was the only option as I didn't bring the Sweet Potato. I was surprised at the speed I could generate and fun I had. Take a step forward and the board accelerates but does not become stiff as a plank.

Well done guys on this design. This board could easy be a one board quiver.

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Terry,
Get the Addvance, you wont regret it. I got the 702 and loved it, a really versatile board, from knee high to well overhead.
I enjoyed it so much that I moved down to the 610 and it's my go to board.
I've also ridden the 606 and it floated me fine, but I like the wave catching advantage the 610 gives me.
I can still compete with the young groms and hotties!
Definitely a far superior board to the surftech mccoy.
Oh yes for your info I'm 60 yrs young and 98kg

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This may be completely dumb and not really something anyone here can answer, but I wonder how much difference there is between a 606 Addvance and my 610 Surftech Soulfish. Both are wide in the chest area, have a pulled in nose and narrowish tail. If anyone can shed some light, then thanks.http://surf.surftech.com/featured-bo...ite-soul-fish/